Annie Rhye



Where Life is full of Annie Rhye,
Where nights are long, where Dreams are wild,
I run and sing, I laugh and cry
With lips of steel and eyes of child.

And then I kneel beside Her feet,
I touch Her knees, I rip Her skirt,
I scar the heels and while they bleed,
I melt my kiss inside my words:

- Hold me, oh, hold me Annie Rhye
In Thy sweet heart for arms are iced;
Kill me, wound me or through Your sighs
Forgive my sins, my little Christ.

And on Her skin, my tears are dried,
Inside my blood, Her blesses bloom.
A crimson grin on Annie Rhye.
A bed of mud. A sacred tomb.
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Submitted on November 23, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABXB XXXX ACXC XDAD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 554
Words 118
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4

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